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Jeremy Beck
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Movie critic. TV addict. Editor-in-chief of MovieManifesto.com. Same handle on Letterboxd. For freelance: beck dot jeremy at gmail. he/him
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Jeremy Beck @moviemanifesto.bsky.social · Sep 5
New piece: I wrote about Netflix’s LONG STORY SHORT. It’s a funny and enjoyable series that also grapples with what it means to be Jewish, which makes it important given how the Trump administration is co-opting Jewishness in perverse ways.

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In “Long Story Short,” Jews Will Not Be Replaced - MovieManifesto
Netflix's new comedy is a powerful exploration of what it means to be Jewish. Someone should tell the Trump administration.
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Night bump: I wrote about JAY KELLY and 100 NIGHTS OF HERO.

Good movies.

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In Jay Kelly and 100 Nights of Hero, Storytelling Is the Story - MovieManifesto
In two movies about stories, Noah Baumbach gets meta with George Clooney, while Maika Monroe finds herself trapped in a myth.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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“Much like JAY KELLY, 100 NIGHTS OF HERO regards storytelling as a sacred art—a mode of personal expression that has the capacity to change lives and even inspire revolution.”

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In Jay Kelly and 100 Nights of Hero, Storytelling Is the Story - MovieManifesto
In two movies about stories, Noah Baumbach gets meta with George Clooney, while Maika Monroe finds herself trapped in a myth.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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“In framing Jay as a kind of shadow image of George, Baumbach and Clooney are actively inviting viewers to draw on their preconceptions of the actor, and to examine the validity of their assumptions.”

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In Jay Kelly and 100 Nights of Hero, Storytelling Is the Story - MovieManifesto
In two movies about stories, Noah Baumbach gets meta with George Clooney, while Maika Monroe finds herself trapped in a myth.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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New piece: I wrote about JAY KELLY and 100 NIGHTS OF HERO, two new movies which take storytelling as their subject, and which turn viewers’ familiarity with their material (and their actors) into an asset.

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In Jay Kelly and 100 Nights of Hero, Storytelling Is the Story - MovieManifesto
In two movies about stories, Noah Baumbach gets meta with George Clooney, while Maika Monroe finds herself trapped in a myth.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

You sit on it, but you don’t take it with you.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

You can’t change the past, you can only podcast about it.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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These days, anti-Semitism on Twitter exists in many forms.
A tweet from someone asking, "Do people actually go to the movie theaters on Christmas Day?"
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Gonna be a rude awakening for HUNGER GAMES fans when this ends up being a sequel to DIE MY LOVE.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will return in 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise of the Reaping'

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December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Sure you knew this movie was a remake of a Billy Wilder picture, but did you know that it was later remade itself?
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December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

Can’t wait for Kiernan Shipka to show up.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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His name’s Bob Rumson and he’s running for President.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This is indeed historic. No other actor has earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing Elphaba even once.
Today’s News: Cynthia Erivo Makes History with Second Straight Golden Globe Nod for Elphaba
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

[weeping] La-hoo zuh-her
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December 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Just saw these back-to-back and I’ll write about one or maybe both but I have to say I really love watching movies.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I thankfully missed the TRAIN DREAMS discourse, so I’ll just say I think it’s a good movie and I wish I’d been able to see it in a theater.

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Train Dreams doesn’t really have a plot, but it does feature an early catalyzing incident, when Grainier watches in stunned silence as his bosses grab his Chinese colleague and chuck him off a bridge—for no apparent reason beyond the man’s ethnicity. Bentley periodically brings the dead man back to life, showing him sitting watchfully at the fireside, the implication being that Grainier remains haunted by his own inaction in the face of murder. That might sound clumsy, but there is nothing didactic about Train Dreams; it merely observes, and any judgment comes from Grainier himself, not the movie. Nor does it descend into miserabilism; Grainier’s life is hard, but he also enjoys a happy marriage (Felicity Jones plays his wife), and though a mid-film tragedy sends him into despair, the picture surrounding him never spirals into blackness. How could it, when the invaluable Kerry Condon pops up to provide radiant warmth? The result is a modest portrait that’s also a fulsome chronicle of human existence—novelistic in scope, intimate in style. Grade: B+
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I think Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is a beautifully made movie, and I wished it moved me more. (Or maybe I’m just annoyed that I had to watch it on Netflix.)

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And yet, there is something limiting about Del Toro’s rigidity. The heart of Frankenstein lies in how its obsessed doctor fails to grapple with the humanity of his own invention. Structurally, Del Toro’s adaptation makes sure the creature has his say—the screenplay is divided into two parts, with god and monster each relaying his own tale of woe—but spiritually it’s aligned with its physician, focusing more on precision than freedom. It’s a magnificent innovation that doesn’t quite carry the spark of life.
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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My thoughts on Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. are that you should watch SENTIMENTAL VALUE.

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Nestled within Sentimental Value’s rolling tenderness and thoughtful insights are some sharp jabs at Netflix, which has provided financing for Gustav’s latest project. At a junket, a reporter asks Gustav if his new movie will be screening in theaters, and he finds the question baffling: “Where else would it play?” As someone who dolefully watched both Frankenstein and Train Dreams on his TV set (first-world problems, I know), I found Gustav’s irritation heartening. He may be a prick, but given the current state of cinema, he’s also the hero we need. Grade: A-
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New piece: I wrote about some movies.

ZOOTOPIA 2: Not bad!
FRANKENSTEIN: Beautiful, little stiff!
TRAIN DREAMS: Lovely!
RENTAL FAMILY: Could be worse!
SENTIMENTAL VALUE: Glorious!

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Thanksgiving Roundup: Zootopia 2, Frankenstein, Train Dreams, Rental Family, Sentimental Value - MovieManifesto
A bunch of movies came out recently, and some of them are quite good. A few you can even watch in actual theaters.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Can’t imagine this plays as well at home as it did on the big screen, but regardless, good movie.

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December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious movies to solve them.

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December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#NW #Holiday95Rewatch

Sydney, Congress doesn’t take this long.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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I don’t envy Trump because he’s a petty and miserable man with no friends, but I do wonder what it’s like to be able to *lie* like this—to just fabricate entire conversations without shame. “Someone came up to me and said, ‘Jeremy, you have the best film criticism site on the web.’” Feels weird!
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Trump: "They're finding money in our country now that they never knew existed. The other day -- $30b. Where did it come from? I said, 'Why don't you check the tariffs shelf?' They said, 'Sir, that tariff hasn't started yet.' I said, 'No, it started 2 months ago.' They call back- 'sir, you're right'"
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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“There is nothing truly new on screen—just a careful rendering of a beloved piece of intellectual property. The movie never finds its courage, instead dutifully following a Yellow Brick Road that winds up being a dead end.”

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Wicked: For Good review: Make Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored - MovieManifesto
Jon M. Chu's sequel to Wicked is a deflating mess, with flat songs, a dull story, and zero sense of creative inspiration.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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New piece: As someone who quite liked the first WICKED, I had high hopes for the sequel. But WICKED: FOR GOOD is a debacle, with flat choreography, a dull story, and no spark of life.

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Wicked: For Good review: Make Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored - MovieManifesto
Jon M. Chu's sequel to Wicked is a deflating mess, with flat songs, a dull story, and zero sense of creative inspiration.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Wait how is this not called THE ODD THROUPLE
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